Chapter Twenty-Seven: Buying Grain from Datang?
Let's talk about the risk of doing this first, that is, as the county lord, Fang Yi will easily be overshadowed by the local rich gentry.
It can be seen from the day Fang Yi was first promoted to the county lord, when he was stopped by a group of ordinary people.
The rich gentry have never been a small force.
In feudal society, they added up to half of the entire city.
When they secretly incite and inspire the people, it is easy to cause a certain amount of trouble to the officials.
Just like that car stop, if an official directly expelled the people, which side would the people's hearts turn?
Of course, it's the landlords who are willing to give me a job and keep me alive!
Once the people's will is lost, many decisions or general direction plans will be like mud cattle entering water, and it will be difficult to move an inch.
In more serious cases, what if the nobles incite the people to start a civil unrest or even rebellion?
That's the unsolvable game.
The moment he lifts it up, you're already in a dead end.
No matter how you deal with it, the black gauze hat will be removed in the end.
The people in the county are rioting, how can the court not get the news, and you will be okay by then?
After you fall off the horse, you will be replaced by another person, and the same situation will be the same.
So what should I do?
can only obey the scholar clan step by step, and in the end he also became a scholar himself.
For a class to survive for a long time, there must be a reason for it to hold its grounds.
But why did Fang Yi dare to do it?
Because this is not the original world!
The so-called elite legion of the Destiny is enough to clear all obstacles!
As long as the people give good feedback and can provide enough resources to the imperial court, who cares if the people benefit from them are farmers or landlords?
Guan Yu Lu Bu is sitting here, which is one of Fang Yi's guarantees.
This policy is so good, the tribute is quacking, the development is fast, and the prosperity is like a river entering the sea, who dares to stand up and bark? What about the result of a knife?
Of course, the premise of all this is that this policy is really good enough to really develop.
Even if there will be a slight deviation in the policy, Fang Yi is the emperor's personal county lord, what if something goes wrong?
I represent the aborigines, the Mandate of Heaven and the aborigines, who can dare to accuse me casually?
That's his confidence!
Of course, this kind of contradiction with the gentry class, over time, there will always be a flashpoint, that is, the food problem that Fang Yi is now distressed about.
Food is gradually becoming a big problem again.
Although Emperor Wu ordered several Linjun to provide some food to Luoyang County, the coming and going added up to about 5 or 600,000 catties.
However, this is still a drop in the bucket for Luoyang, a county with a large population.
The war to conquer Luoyang almost crossed the entire Luoyang County, and there were very few plants left, such as cucumbers and early rice, which could only add more than 10 days of grain products to Luoyang after the summer harvest was completed.
A person's normal consumption of a day is a pound of grain, Luoyang is less than 100,000 people, the grain aided by other counties, plus the autumn harvest, plus the grain trade brought by the caravan, can last this month, it has been calculated to the limit.
But what next?
If we really want to solve the food crisis in Luoyang as a whole, we must find a way to last until the autumn harvest in a little more than a month.
The autumn harvest is the real time to expand the grain depot.
So what about this month?
Fang Yi discussed with his subordinates for a long time, and finally came up with a better solution.
Purchase grain from Datang.
"Datang occupies the rich land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where it is the land of fish and rice, and it has been developing steadily this year, and the inventory of grain and grass is estimated to have reached a terrifying point, and it can be said that it is cheap to buy from them."
In the newly established county lord's mansion, Fang Yi was sitting in the hall, and dozens of gorgeously groomed dignitaries were sitting below his side, all of whom were making suggestions for the food problem.
Most of them were local wealthy squires, as well as officials in charge of various affairs under Luoyang County, and so on.
However, Guan Yu, Lu Bu and the others did not come, Fang Yi wanted to send someone to invite them, but after thinking about it, he gave up.
They don't care about people's livelihood, and they don't know how to deal with it, and calling them here will only add to their troubles.
"Lord County, this matter is not appropriate, we did not have a way to connect with the Tang Dynasty, and took the liberty of buying from them, not only revealing our current decline, but also the other party will definitely maliciously raise the price, originally the county lord, your policy of opening up trade, will seriously squeeze the local economic forces, and if you go to buy grain, the current economic situation in the county is really not allowed."
Hearing this, Fang Yi glanced at the person who spoke, this was an old man with gray temples.
Luoyang is like this, who doesn't know its situation? Dead old guy who wants to save face!
Fang Yi scolded secretly in his heart, but what he said Fang Yi also recognized was ......
If you want to buy food, you must also have enough funds!
Although Luoyang developed rapidly last month, the purchase of another month's grain at a high price was enough to collapse Luoyang's already good economic chain!
The caravans that people come and go to Luoyang, etc., have indeed promoted the reconstruction and development of Luoyang, but the money is in the hands of others, so you can't rob it, right?
He looked up at the group of noble squires in front of him, and clearly saw a kind of disdain in their indifferent eyes.
Yes, the people have no food left at home, but they have a lot of them!
They don't worry about how things turn out at all!
"Money is really a big problem, when it gets over this time, I will definitely find a way to work hard to make money in the future!"
Fang Yi secretly made up his mind and made an oath that he often liked to make in his previous life.
But how can we ease the situation this time?
The people below were still discussing how to buy food, and even said outrageous things about asking every merchant to pay for help.
Isn't it, a businessman's two arms? Sending you money to buy food for nothing?
If you go to someone to ask for money, you probably won't be able to finish talking, and they will all run away.
Fang Yi was speechless for a long time, and only after the rich merchants, squires, dignitaries and nobles had stopped pretending to argue before they stared at him silently.
"Lord County, the livelihood of the people is a big deal, do you have any good plans?"